Open AccessColorado court involvement in chemical spill clean-up activities.
Author(s) -
Donald W. Rice
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.71.9.1044
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , hazardous waste , groundwater , intervention (counseling) , pesticide , environmental science , action (physics) , environmental planning , waste management , environmental health , law , environmental protection , engineering , political science , geography , medicine , archaeology , agronomy , physics , geotechnical engineering , quantum mechanics , psychiatry , biology
Judicial involvement was utilized to force the owners of a pesticide formulation plant to decontaminate property that had been covered with toxic pesticides having the potential to contaminate both surface and groundwater supplies in the East Denver metropolitan area. This case represented the first use of the Colorado state court system in dealing with a hazardous waste "spill." In this case, judicial intervention was unsatisfactory because of the delays involved. Other courses of action will be considered in future cases of a similar nature.